4 delicious desserts using Autumn ingredients – PHOTOS

If the weather turns gloomy outside, then one of the best things you could do is to stay indoors and bake some delicious desserts. In this article, we have gathered four desserts for you that use some of the most characteristic ingredients of the Autumn: apples, poppy seed, walnut, pumpkin.

Apple

Hungarian sour cream dough apple “pie” (‘béles’)

Ingredients:

• 1,5 dl milk
• 25 g fresh yeast
• 4 tbsp granulated sugar
• 50 dkg flour
• a pinch of salt
• 2 tbsp powdered sugar
• 20 dkg butter
• 3 eggs
• 2 tbsp sour cream
• 8 apples
• lemon peel (half)
• the juice of half of a lemon (freshly squeezed)
• 2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon cloves
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• 2 tbsp semolina

Instructions:

Crumble the yeast into lukewarm milk and add one tablespoon of granulated sugar and let it sit to activate the yeast. While the yeast is sitting, weigh the flour into a large bowl and add the powdered sugar and a little salt to it. Cube the butter and add it to the bowl and knead it until it is crumbly. After this, add two eggs, the sour cream and the activated yeast mixture and knead into a soft dough. Cover it with a kitchen towel and let it sit while preparing the filling.

Peel the apples and grate them into a large bowl. Add the remaining granulated sugar, cinnamon and cloves to the grated apples. Grate the peel of half a lemon and squeeze it into the bowl and mix it.

Sprinkle some flour to your work area and put the dough on it. Cut it into two parts and roll them out separately. Butter a large heat resistant bowl and lay one of the rolled-out dough in it. Pierce it with a fork in a few places and sprinkle the semolina on it. Squeeze a bit of the moisture out of the apple filling and put it on the dough. Sprinkle it with brown sugar and cover it with the other rolled-out dough. Also, pierce the top layer in a few places and then glaze it with a beaten egg. Put it in a pre-heated oven at 180 °C and bake it for about 45-50 minutes. When serving, sprinkle some powdered sugar on top.

Poppy seed

Hungarian poppy seed and cherry “pie” (‘béles’)

Ingredients:

For the dough:

• 400 g flour
• 1 packet of baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• 200 g butter
• 5 tbsp sour cream

For the filling:

• 350 g poppy seed
• 200 g sugar
• 400 ml milk
• 50 g semolina
• lemon peel
• coffee spoon cinnamon (0.2 teaspoon)
• 5 tbsp apricot jam
• 350 g cherry kompot

For glazing and sprinkling:

• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tbsp milk
• 1 tbsp vanilla sugar

Instructions:

First, prepare the filling. Boil the milk with the sugar and add the ground poppy seed and the semolina. Mix it well, turn off the heat and let it cool down. Mix the flour with the salt and baking powder. Add the butter and crumble it, then add the sour cream and knead the mixture into a malleable soft dough. Separate the dough into two parts (about 400g each).

Pre-heat the oven and put parchment paper in a pan. Flour your work surface and roll out both pieces of the dough and lay one into the prepared pan.